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Update: I’ve written a simpler procedure that will uninstall LAMP with a single command. I’m leaving this post here for historical reasons, but the process is much faster if you follow my newer post. The most popular post on this blog is How to Install LAMP on Ubuntu 9.10. On that post, I’ve had a …

I’ve written a few posts about restarting USB service in Ubuntu before. This is an update to that process for Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty) and Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic). As of Ubuntu Jaunty, the usb kernel module is called usb_storage.

After reading about the blazing fast boot time of Ubuntu 9.04 on Matt Cutts’ blog, I decided it was worthwhile to go for the upgrade on my MSI Wind U100-432US. Before the upgrade I made sure to install bootchart and manually measure the boot time as well.

The newest version of Ubuntu was released today, version 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope). Help ease the burden on Ubuntu’s servers and speed up your download by downloading your CD images over BitTorrent. Here are the links to the new torrents. ubuntu-9.04-alternate-amd64.iso.torrent ubuntu-9.04-alternate-i386.iso.torrent ubuntu-9.04-desktop-amd64.iso.torrent ubuntu-9.04-desktop-i386.iso.torrent ubuntu-9.04-rc-server-amd64.iso.torrent ubuntu-9.04-server-i386.iso.torrent